The Mustang has been one of the top automotive icons from Detroit since the end of World War II. A lot of Camaro owners would disagree, but of them we ask, “So where’s your Camaro now, sport?” Requiescat in pace, that’s where. Now, as the Mustang moves nearer to its first floor-to-ceiling makeover since 1979, [...]
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Do all car stylists meet once a month in a big bar somewhere to compare designs? Do all initial styling sketches get processed through some kind of blandness mainframe, where they are digitally neutered to achieve a numbing stylistic consistency? Or is maybe just one guy doing the styling on all new cars worldwide, and [...]
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